It's been trying to snow for about three days now. Lots of flurries, some decent snow and some breaks. I love that it's still trying to snow. I hate that it is failing miserably. There is actually less snow on the ground than before it started. There was actually a nice dusting on the ground this morning, now it's all gone ( Read more... )

Every now and then I suspect I'm trying to get into the wrong line of work. In the course of a shower my thoughts somehow transfer from a television show to organizing code for a project I haven't thought about in over a year. Everytime some random thing like this happens I'm thinking there is something wrong with me, but I love it none the less ( Read more... )

Just a note
In case you didn't know, we just turned a century.
We are also still in the time frame that would be considered "turn of the century"
So when you reference something as popular at the turn of the century, you may have to specify which one.

Did I miss the memo? why are all the subjects of posts self-referencing? Yeah, it's a neat little gimic that's not that hard to implement, but why implement it? Whats the point ( Read more... )

I suspect keanu reves will make an excelent alien

I know I spent way too much time in the costume shop those last years at UMBC when I find myself reading a tutorial on how to hack an industrial sewing machine, and finding everything to be obvious, including the link to McMaster-CarrFor those who don't know, McMaster-Carr is a hardware store, but not like Home Depot. You go to home depot to by a ( Read more... )

To all you bored people who can't afford to go out and entertain yourselves like you used to: Use Condoms! Sex is essentially free and everyone I know is entertained by it. Increasing the population when you have less disposable income is a bad idea. By the time you can sell your offspring into manual labor we should be out of the recession. ( Read more... )

Yay. obama won, democratic senate, getting close in the house. No take-backs, no recounts, obscene amounts of people not tricked into not voting, or outright bared. Looks like this is the first election I voted in that won't be contested in some way. Other than all the damn yawning I'm thrilled. Well, I'm too tired to be thrilled. I'll work ( Read more... )

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thinking about applying for a grant for something I want to make and possibly distribute under some kind of open source license. Maybe BSD or creative commons. There is a hardware component so it could get a little complicated with the licenses.

just wanted to get it in before the servers go down.